Inspiration for the Day

HOW BUSY ARE WE?

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address
to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from
going to church. We can't even keep them from reading their
Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from
forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ.
If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them
is broken. So let them go to their churches; let them have
their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't
gain that relationship with Jesus Christ. This is what I want you
to do angels: "Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior
and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we go this?" shouted his angels. "Keep them busy
in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes
to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend,
spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives
to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days
each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty
lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children.
As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape
from the pressures of work! Over-stimulate their minds so
that they cannot hear that still, small voice.

Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CD's and their PC's going
constantly in their home and see to it that every store and
restaurant in the world pays non-biblical music constantly. This
will jam their minds and break that union with Christ. "Fill the
coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their
minds with news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments
with billboards.

Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweep-
stakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free
products, services and false hopes.

Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines so the husbands
will believe that external beauty is what's important, and they'll
become dissatisfied with their wives. Ha! That will fragment those
families quickly! "Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.
Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and
unprepared for the coming week.

Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them
to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.
Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship,
involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled
consciences and unsettled emotions. "Go ahead, let them be
involved in soul winning; but crowd their lives with so many good causes
they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be working
in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of
the cause. It will work! It will work!

It was quite a convention. The evil angels went eagerly to their
assignments causing Christians everywhere to get more busy and
more rushed, going here and there. I guess the question is; Has the
devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge! Does
busy mean B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?